Literature, Culture and Society in Postwar England
Author: John Brannigan
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780889469273
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Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain
Author: Alan Sinfield
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2004-12-23
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780826477026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlan Sinfield (1941-) is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. The publication of Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain in 1989 firmly established him as one of our foremost writers on literature and a leading critic of postwar culture and society. Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain is a landmark work in contemporary literary and cultural analysis. It offers a provocative and brilliant account of political change since 1945 and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. It also looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms, and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author, specially written for the Impact edition.
Radical Fictions
Author: Nick Bentley
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9783039109340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNick Bentley takes a fresh look at English fiction produced in the 1950s. By looking at a range of authors, he shows that the novel of the period was far more diverse and formally experimental than previous accounts have suggested.
British Culture of the Post-War
Author: Alastair Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1135100152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Angus Wilson to Pat Barker and Salman Rushdie, British Culture of the Post-War is an ideal starting point for those studying cultural developments in Britain of recent years. Chapters on individual people and art forms give a clear and concise overview of the progression of different genres. They also discuss the wider issues of Britain's relationship with America and Europe, and the idea of Britishness. Each section is introduced with a short discussion of the major historical events of the period. Read as a whole, British Culture of the Postwar will give students a comprehensive introduction to this turbulent and exciting period, and a greater understanding of the cultural production arising from it.
B S Johnson and Post-War Literature
Author: M. Ryle
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-11
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1137349557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays on the 1960s experimental writer B.S. Johnson, this book draws together new research on all aspects of his work, and, in tracing his connections to a wider circle of continental, British and American avant-garde writers, offers exciting new approaches to reading 1960s experimental fiction.
Post-war Literature
Author: Caroline Merz
Publisher: Evans Brothers
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780237522582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title sets out the political developments of the period before looking at developments in drama and the British theatre, poetry and novel writing, popular culture and the American influence in all aspects of literature and the media.
English Literature in Context
Author: Paul Poplawski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-05-18
Total Pages: 757
ISBN-13: 1107141672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Anglo-Saxon runes to postcolonial rap, this undergraduate textbook covers the social and historical contexts of the whole of the English literature.
Postwar Politics, Society and the Folk Revival in England, 1945-65
Author: Julia Mitchell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-09-19
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1350071226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe English folk revival cannot be understood when divorced from the history of post-war England, yet the existing scholarship fails to fully engage with its role in the social and political fabric of the nation. Postwar Politics, Society and the Folk Revival in England is the first study to interweave the story of a gentrifying folk revival with the socio-political tensions inherent in England's postwar transition from austerity to affluence. Julia Mitchell skillfully situates the English folk revival in the context of the rise of the new left, the decline of heavy industry, the rise of local, regional and national identities, the 'Americanisation' of English culture and the development of mass culture. In doing so, she demonstrates that the success of the English folk revival derived from its sense of authenticity and its engagement with topical social and political issues, such as the conflicted legacy of the Welfare State, the fight for nuclear disarmament and the fallout of nationalization. In addition, she shrewdly compares the US and British revival to identify the links but also what was distinctive about the movement in Britain. Drawing on primary sources from folk archives, the BBC, the music press and interviews with participants, this is a theoretically engaged and sophisticated analysis of how postwar culture shaped the folk revival in England.
Literature of an Independent England
Author: C. Westall
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-07-09
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1137035242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome of the most incisive writers on the subject rethink the relationship between Britain, England and English literary culture. It is premised on the importance of devolution, the uncertainty of the British union, the place of English Literature within the union, and the need for England to become a self-determining literary nation.
Orwell to the Present
Author: John Brannigan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2002-11-25
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1350308854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis essential introductory guide provides a comprehensive critical survey of the diverse and rich body of literary writing produced in England in the postwar period. John Brannigan explores the relationship between literature and history, and analyses how poets, playwrights and novelists have revisited notions of Englishness, represented Englands of the past, and sought to make new 'maps' of English culture and society. Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000 combines original readings of familiar texts with wide-ranging explorations of the principal themes and historical and cultural contexts of literature since the end of the Second World War. Writers considered in detail include: Martin Amis, Simon Armitage, Pat Barker, John Betjeman, Edward Bond, Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon, Graham Swift and Evelyn Waugh.
